Bingle left the court in chaotic scenes and repeatedly said 'excuse me' as she waded her way through a sea of cameras.

She left in the same chauffeur-driven hire car that delivered her to the courthouse 15 minutes late for today's sentencing.

Before the sentencing, Bingle seemed relaxed and chatted with a fellow-accused in the waiting room. At one point she even posed for a photo with the starstruck male.

Inside court, the atmosphere was much more tense.

Serial offender: Lara Bingle has been caught up in at least six other traffic offences, one in which she was fined $3500 for colliding with a motorbike rider

'You're driving record is otherwise very poor:' Lara Bingle has been photographed on many occasions by paparazzi driving when she shouldn't have been

Bingle, dressed in an all black power suit and thick-rimmed glasses, fidgeted nervously and yawned throughout the sentencing hearing

Bingle's lawyer began by handing up a number of character references and argued that his client should be dealt with leniently because 'she is somewhat unworldly when it comes to administrative things' and 'she sticks to what she's good at'.

Ms Bingle can not count driving among those talents, documents tendered to court reveal.

The 26-year-old has racked up 42 entries on her driving record - a record described as 'very poor' by Magistrate Farnan this morning.

Ms Bingle was sentenced on two counts of driving on a cancelled licence, relating to incidents on 25 October and 1 November last year.

She was fined $2000 and disqualified from driving for two years for the first offence, but the magistrate took a harsher view towards the crime committed by Ms Bingle seven days later.

Facts reveal she was traveling in her black Range Rover down Ocean Street in Edgecliff after 9pm when 'uniformed police driving a fully marked police vehicle observed (Lara's car) make an illegal U-turn.'

When they later pulled her over under flashing lights near Darling Point and asked to see her licence, Bingle replied: 'I don't have it on me.'

Subsequent investigations revealed she was driving on a cancelled licenced on both occasions (she was stopped on 25 October for a mobile breath test) and was brought before the courts.

In January she was ordered to attend a six-week Traffic Offenders Intervention Program at the Woolloomooloo PCYC. The 'very good student' was invited back to give a seminar in a future course, the court heard.

But it counted for little next to Bingle's repeated traffic infringements.

Bingle, busted! The model was handed a $2000 fine and ordered off the road for two years for two offences relating to driving on a cancelled licence

Charitable: in sentencing the judge took into account Bingle's 'genuine and sincere' devotion to charitable courses

Lara Bingle appears in court for sentencing in relation to a string of driving offences

In September 2012 the serial driving pest was ordered off the road for a year, hit with a $3500 fine and placed on a good behaviour bond after she was caught driving on a suspended licence and collided with a motorbike rider.

The magistrate accepted Ms Bingle 'contributed to the community in charitable ways' and considered ordering Ms Bingle to undergo community service.

But she said she was left with little option but to impose a 'jail sentence, albeit suspended' on Bingle and warned her she would be 'likely to serve the remainder of the sentence in jail' if she broke the law again.

Despite Bingle's lawyer telling the court his client relied on a ‘considerable amount of overseas travel’, the suspended jail sentence she was hit with will likely hamper her attempts to enter countries such as America for work or travel.

Bingle has spent a lot of time in the United States, with her boyfriend Sam Worthington enjoying a successful Hollywood career.

Bingle, dressed in a smart all-black suit, black heels and thick sunglasses, refused to answer questions about this morning's result.

In a character reference for Lara Bingle, written by Sydney Olympic Park Authority boss Ross Coggan, she was described as a young woman who has faced her fare share of battles.

'She has been raised in a loving family environment and has had to deal with the death of her father at a young age,' he wrote.

'(She is) extremely embarrassed and deeply remorseful...(she is) a young lady who has, quite reluctantly, had a very public life subject to most intense, often unfair and regularly fabricated media scrutiny since the age of sixteen.'

But this very real latest stumble means the girl made famous by ads designed to sell Australia to the world is now on the precipice of finding herself in a cell.